Las Vegas has always been a place of dreams, promising that pennies could turn into fortunes, cities could rise from the desert, and property values could rise eternally. But you can also lose your shirt there, and the real estate crash has hit Sin City harder than anyplace else in the country.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the home foreclosure crisis is how much damage it has caused in minority communities. Now, the activist group Committee for Responsible Lending has spelled out the depth of the problem in stark detail.